Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1800, New Year of the Ming Dynasty 1
"Crackling~"

"Boom~jump~"

Here in a community in the capital, with the arrival of the New Year, the sound of firecrackers and fireworks is deafening, one after another, resounding through the sky, illuminating the night.

This year's firecrackers and fireworks are more noisy and lively than last year. It can be seen that everyone's life is quite good this year.

Wen Zhang's family is also happily preparing for the New Year's Eve.

Wen Zhang's wife Du Shi and concubine Wen Lian have already prepared everything for the New Year's Eve, and the children who are already hungry are already drooling around the table.

The New Year's Eve is naturally the most sumptuous dinner of the year. The condition of the writer's house is quite good, and naturally the preparations are quite rich.

There are more than [-] dishes on a large table, all of which are flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the sea, produced by Daming itself, from overseas and outside the customs. cellar wine.

Looking at the house in front of me, the decoration is also quite good. The glass lamps are still lit with whale oil lamps instead of cheap kerosene. The bright whale oil lamps illuminate the whole house.

"mom!"

"time to eat!"

Wenwen came to his mother, Sun Erniang. Wenwen lost his father since he was a child, and he was brought up by his own mother, Sun Erniang.

"Come on, kowtow to Mr. Liu!"

Sun Erniang nodded, and then brought the article to a longevity card and said.

The Longevity Card reads 'Liu Gongjin's Longevity Tablet'!
This turned out to be the longevity tablet for Liu Jinli.

"Ok!"

The article nodded, and then solemnly knelt in front of the longevity tablet and kowtowed three times respectfully.

"God bless Mr. Liu with a long life, no disease, no disaster, good life and good health!"

Sun Erniang also lit three sticks of incense, praying gently to the God in her heart, praying for her benefactor Liu Jin.

After the article kowtowed and Sun Erniang finished burning incense, the family sat down at the table of the Eight Immortals.

Sun Erniang didn't move their chopsticks, and everyone didn't dare to move their chopsticks. They all looked at Sun Erniang in unison, waiting for the same thing that happened nearly 20 years ago as in previous years.

"Back then there was a snowstorm in the three northern provinces, the weather was freezing, your grandfather died of illness, and there was no food in the house. I came out to beg with my articles. I almost froze to death and starved to death at the foot of the city wall along the way. .”

"Fortunately, I met Liu Jin Liu Gong, who is the chief assistant of the cabinet of the imperial court today. He is a poor mother and son. He not only gave us food, but also gave me a job. He also gave the article my current name."

"He is the great benefactor of our Wen family. Without Mr. Liu, our mother and son would freeze to death and starve to death in the wilderness, let alone have everything our family has now."

"Our family must always keep this kindness in our hearts. If there is a chance in the future, we must repay the great kindness of our benefactor!"

Sun Erniang told stories that the children would hear every New Year's Eve.

As far as the article is concerned, he has heard his mother talk about this matter every year since he was sensible, and his mother burns incense and prays for Liu Jin's longevity tablet every day.

In Sun Erniang's words, this is the only thing their family can do for Liu Gong now.

"Yes, mother~"

The article nodded solemnly.

For the poor life before, the article naturally has no memory.

Since he was sensible, he has never worried about eating or dressing.

At first, his mother, Sun Erniang, was assigned to cook meals for the workers in the Xishan Coal Mine. At least there was no problem with eating, and later she joined the textile factory.

Relying on his hard work and learning ability, he also became the supervisor of the textile factory. He was in charge of dozens of female workers, and his income was not bad.

Not only raised the article, but also bought a house in the capital early and settled down.

Zhang Wenwen also grew up in the courtyard of the family members of Liu Jin's industry, and went to a new type of school.

Because I am smart and hard-working, I was also admitted to Imperial College, and started to work a few years ago. Because I was a top student who graduated from Imperial College, I successfully entered the Mercedes-Benz car factory, and once I entered, I worked from the management. From now on, the income is very good.

So I don't quite understand these things that Sun Erniang said, so I specifically asked many elders who walked together in that era.

From the mouths of the elders, I learned that there were many, many people who were about to starve to death, not just their mother and son, but many people almost survived the snowstorm and the famine in the following year.

Fortunately, it was Liu Jin and Liu Gong who recruited many people back then, so that everyone had a job and food to eat, so they survived. It is also because of Liu Gong that the fate of many people has undergone tremendous changes.

Many elders were just illiterate farmers before. After entering the industry under Mr. Liu, they not only had stable jobs and income, but also learned a lot of words and knowledge in the factory, and were able to read and write.

Some people even became sailors and traveled overseas. There are many explorers and big mine owners on the Golden Island. They used to be workers under Liu Jin's command.

In Nanyang, many plantation owners, trading house owners, fleet owners, captains and so on, they were just cats and dogs on the side of the road that were about to freeze to death.

Among the thousands of households in the capital, there are many factory managers, many shopkeepers, etc. They were just beggars back then, poor people fleeing famine in winter.

The reason why the Dong family is able to exist today is because of one person, and that person is Liu Jin, Liu Gong, the chief assistant of the Ming cabinet. There are many people who gave Liu Jin the longevity tablet, and the article has seen many of them.

He also slowly believed in everything that happened that year.

I believe that in the past, the people of Ming Dynasty would not have enough to eat and wear warm clothes. I believe that the house that everyone lived in before was actually the kind of dirty and rotten mud house. Even the livestock live in it now. it is good.

"Let's eat."

Sun Erniang looked at everyone, smiled and picked up chopsticks to start eating the New Year's Eve dinner.

Looking at the dishes on the table, they were delicious, but she didn't have much appetite.

Look out the window again, the lights are bright everywhere, fireworks and firecrackers are going off, and heavy snow begins to fall in the sky.

Her thoughts suddenly seemed to return to that winter, that cold winter.

I was alone and fled to the capital with the article in my infancy, but the capital closed the gates, and they were not allowed to enter the capital.

It was also snowing, the howling cold wind, and biting cold.

Because I didn't eat, I didn't have any milk, I couldn't eat milk, and I couldn't even cry.

At that time of despair, fortunately, I met Liu Gong. He gave me food, arranged for me to work, and found someone to feed the article, so I came back to life.

Sun Erniang remembered the steamed buns she ate at that time, which were the most delicious things in the world.

In Sun Erniang's opinion, these delicacies from mountains and seas are not as delicious as steamed buns.

"Mom, eat more food."

The article looked at where his mother seemed to be thinking, and was eating slowly with only steamed buns, which was also serving her food.

"Okay, okay, let's eat."

Sun Erniang came back to her senses, looked at the family in front of her, and said with a smile.

Now my family is much more lively, Wenwen has grown up, married a wife, took a white slave concubine, gave birth to a few children, and lived in such a spacious and beautiful big house in front of me.

Such a life, back then, I didn't even dare to think about it. At that time, I just wanted to survive, and I was satisfied with pulling the article to grow up.

It is all because of Mr. Liu, and it is Mr. Liu's great kindness that has everything in his family.

Li Da's home in Shangyun Town, Heitu Province.

The three members of Li Da's family are also happily eating the New Year's Eve.

The son was only born a few months ago, and now it is time to eat, sleep, and eat. At this moment, he is sleeping soundly, and Li Da and his wife are left to enjoy a sumptuous New Year's Eve.

Because it is an immigrant, and it is the first New Year in the immigrant place, the emperor and the court pay special attention to it, so a New Year's gift has been sent to each immigrant's home early.

This New Year’s goods include raisins, dates, melon seeds and other snacks, dried salmon from Huangjinzhou, beef jerky and mutton jerky from the Hezhong area, as well as fresh pork from the river, as well as some cabbage, potatoes, and carrots. Such vegetables.

They are all foodies, so that the immigrants can have a decent New Year's Eve dinner.

Everyone in Li didn't mean to save. The fresh stewed mutton is the most nourishing. It is very suitable for the wife to eat. After eating it, the health will be good, the milk will be rich, and the son will be full.

Pork stewed vermicelli, with potatoes and onions, the taste is quite good. Soak the dried salmon in water and steam it, it tastes extremely delicious. If you order fried beef with sour cabbage, this New Year's Eve dinner is quite good.

At least in the eyes of Li Da and his wife, this is an extremely extravagant New Year's Eve.

They are all mountain people in the depths of the Qinling Mountains. Although they live in the mountains like a paradise, their lives are very poor, and the food is seriously not enough. Especially Li and everyone have many brothers, all of them are ordinary. In the case of big and small children.

During the Chinese New Year, let alone eating meat, just being able to eat a full meal is already pretty good.

They also eat beef, mutton, pork, fish, and vegetables. If it was in the mountains of my hometown, my younger brothers would swallow their tongues.

"I don't know what's going on in my hometown?"

Li Da was eating the New Year's Eve, and he was very homesick all of a sudden. He missed his parents and younger brother in the mountains, and missed every detail of where he was, even though he was very poor there.

(End of this chapter)